The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-12-22

A German carp weighing more than
ten pounds was caught in mill dam
near Oringsburg, Pa.
Much alarm exists among coffee plant
ers in Brazil owing to i. new disease hav-
ing broken out in the coffee shrubs.
In some Of the southern counties of
Virginia, the cultivation of peanuts is
gradually taking the place of cotton as
affording more profitable crop.
A ssbelled buzzard" is again circulating
over middle and west Tennessee. Owing
to the mortality among cattle, caused by
the drought, he fills a long felt want.
A Galloway, Colo, cow is to next
season make her home on the top of Pixies
peak. She will be the highest COW on
earth. a stable will be built for her, and
a burro will pack the feed to her. She
is to be kept there for her milk.
Tigers have been encountered lately in
parts of Asiatic and European Russia,
where they have never been before. Some
of the animals have been captured and
sent to st. Petersburg alive.
A telegraph line to connect Russia and
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with Germany Russia would be cut off
from all telegraph communication with
the eastern countries, as the only tele-
graph wire it has goes through Germany.
In excavi,ting for cellar at st, Angus
tine, Fla, workman disinterred an i'm
mense iron crowbar, which must have
been used by the unknown aborigines. 1t
is ten feet long. tapering at each end to a
sharp point, and weighs 100 pounds.
An earthquake occurred in Iceland in
October last. The shock seems to have
been confined TO the southern part of the
island, and was very severe. The rock
at Cape Relkiavik, on which the light
house stands, has been rent asunder, and
the house considerable damaged.
The old treaty oak on Mrs. Thompson IS
plantation in Oglethorpe county, Ga, has
been cut and killed. This famous white
oak was the tree under which the first
settlers made the treaty with the Chero-
kee Indians for all the land in that sec
ton of the state.
The immigration of children to Canada
is attracting much attention in Great
Britain. Large numbers of pauper chill
dren have been sent over, and inspectors
have been appointed by the government
to visit the children once or twice a year
to see that they are properly provided
| for.
The manufacture of bicycles and tri.
cycles is the latest development of Ger
man competition with a hitherto specifi-
caly English industry. The splendid
roads of the Black Forest and Switzer-
! land have this year been more thronged
| than ever before with metaphysics. There
is now hardly town in Germany with.
out its velocipede club.
A buzz saw broke while running at a
high rate of speed in Corvallis, Ore, the
other day, and piece striking William
Buchanan in the arm just below the
shoulder cut it off SO quickly and easily
that he didn't know that he was hur
until he saw his arm lying at his feet
Then he ciasped the bleeding stump and
ran to neighboring house.
The Angora goat seems to be raised il
great perfection in Texas. A skin of tht
most beautiful description came from tn,
ranch of the Nessrs. Arnold, in Uvaldt
county. The hair is brilliantly white
and very long and silky. They also pos
sesa the art down there of dressing thest
skis in manner to make them as use
| full -or rugs as they are agreeable to iool
at.